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Missoula, Mont. (AP) Authorities say a 44-year-old Stevensville woman has been killed in a three-car crash in Missoula. Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Sean Finley says Kerina A.

Rose was driving Wednesday afternoon when she stopped for a dog that was crossing Mullan Road. A man in a pickup truck rear-ended her and forced her car into the path of another pickup.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) Investigators are working to bring back to Montana a former Great Falls teacher's aide accused of abusing an autistic boy by placing his head under water. Great Falls police say Kristina Marie Kallies is believed to be in Texas.

An arrest warrant has been issued for her on charges of assault on a minor and endangering the welfare of children.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) State environmental officials want more public input before deciding whether to recommend that a former refinery and a nearby community be added to the federal Superfund list. A listing could bring federal funding to clean up Black Eagle and the Smelter Hill refinery. Waste was once placed in a landfill on the site or dumped into a river.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) The Glacier wind farm in north-central Montana has almost doubled its power generating capacity to 210 megawatts under a recent expansion. Representatives of the Spanish company NaturEner, which developed the wind farm, joined Gov. Brian Schweitzer yesterday to mark the completion of the project the state's largest wind energy development.

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